A multi-agent system for querying heterogeneous data sources with ontologies

SEBD 2005 - Proceedings of the 13th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems

Volumn 2005-June, Issue June, 2005, Pages 75-86

  Dongilli, Paolo ^a   Fillottrani, Pablo R ^a   Franconi, Enrico ^a   Tessaris, Sergio ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE; HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES; INFORMATION MONITORING; INTEGRATED TOOLS; INTEGRATION SCHEME; QUERY ANSWERING; QUERYING PROCESS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84899343048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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